Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchLearning to Drive: A Talk by Katha Pollitt
Episode 42
A longtime Institute member, Katha Pollitt is an American poet, essayist and critic. She is the author of four essay collections and two books of poe…
3 years, 11 months ago
Anu Kumar, “The Woman in the Well," The Common magazine (Spring, 2022)
Episode 40
Anu Kumar speaks to managing editor Emily Everett about her essay “The Woman in the Well,” which appears in The Common’s spring issue. Anu talks abou…
3 years, 11 months ago
Volodymyr Rafeyenko, "Mondegreen: Songs about Death and Love" (Harvard Ukrainian Research Institute, 2022)
Episode 6
Today I talked to Mark Andryczyk, translator of Volodymyr Rafeyenko’s novel Mondegreen: Songs about Death and Love (Harvard Ukrainian Research Instit…
3 years, 11 months ago
85* Pu Wang and John Plotz look back on their Cixin Liu interview
Episode 84
Our first August rebroadcast was John and Pu's 2019 interview with SF superstar Cixin Liu (you may want to re-listen to that episode before this one!…
3 years, 11 months ago
Francesca Stanfill, "The Falcon's Eyes: A Novel" (Harper, 2022)
Episode 145
Twelfth-century Europe was not a good time or place to be born female. Even queens had few rights, garnered little respect, and were tolerated largel…
3 years, 11 months ago
Leanne Kale Sparks, "The Wrong Woman: A Novel" (Crooked Lane Books, 2022)
Episode 269
Today I talked to Leanne Kale Sparks, author of The Wrong Woman: A Novel (Crooked Lane Books, 2022).
The only survivor of Denver's notorious "Reaper"…
3 years, 11 months ago
Nandita Dinesh, "This Place That Place" (Melville House, 2022)
Episode 267
A nameless young woman from This Place, and a nameless young man from That Place are stuck together when That Place, the occupying force, imposes ano…
3 years, 11 months ago
Rebecca van Laer, "How to Adjust to the Dark" (Long Day, 2022) & Shannon McLeod, "Whimsy" (Long Day, 2021)
Episode 47
Rebecca van Laer’s writing appears in TriQuarterly Review, joyland, Columbia journal, the Florida review, Salamander, Hobart, mokeybicycle, electric …
3 years, 11 months ago
B. L. Blanchard, "The Peacekeeper" (47north, 2022)
Episode 143
The rich worldbuilding of a never-colonized North America sets the stage for this unusual murder mystery debut by B. L. Blanchard.
Chibenashi is a bro…
3 years, 11 months ago
Bhaswati Ghosh, "Victory Colony, 1950" (Yoda Press, 2020)
Episode 267
Victory Colony, 1950 (Yoda Press, 2020) by Bhaswati Ghosh is a story of resilience about East Pakistani refugees who were forced to leave their homes…
3 years, 11 months ago